Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 5/15/2011

5/15/1919:
In one of the strangest games in major league baseball h istory, the Cincinnati Reds whitewash the Brooklyn Dodgers, 10-0, in 13 innings at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn's Al Mamaux pitches 12 scoreless innings before giving up 10 Cincinnati runs in the 13th.

Birthdays:
George Brett b. 1953
John Smoltz b. 1967
Emmitt Smith b. 1969
Ray Lewis b. 1975
Josh Beckett b. 1980

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”

—ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, French historian and philosopher

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